Bieber Sullies Another WW II Shrine
Just another day for Justin Bieber. He blundered his way into one of the world’s great geopolitical hotspots this week, paying tribute to some of Japan’s most notorious WWII war criminals while visiting Tokyo. According to the popstar’s Twitter and Instagram accounts, he dropped in on the city’s notorious Yasukuni Shrine, a religious site that has been a constant source of high-level diplomatic dispute between China and Japan. Former military leaders from Japan’s imperial army — including 14 class-A war criminals — who orchestrated mass atrocities in China and other areas of Asia during the Pacific War are believed to have their souls enshrined there. Maybe it’s time for Bieber to avoid anything to do with World War II: when he visited the Anne Frank House he said he hoped she would have been “a bilieber.”
